Cultivate a love for reading and art with this great novel, Van Gogh's Deception by Deron R. Hicks. In addition, using this resource that combines language arts and fine art illustrations, students will read, summarize, and illustrate each chapter.
Art students will race to analyze and describe a famous painting via a displayed digital resource. Using the internet to search, the first student or team to name the artist wins (candy). Completing the Art History Mystery worksheet, students will dive deeper listing the descriptive words, artist bio., artwork credentials, and illustrating the artwork.
ELA and visual art students alike will benefit from learning about Mummy Brown paint. Students will read the informational text and then identify the main idea and supporting ideas in this passage.
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Visual Arts